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Chapter 17 - Chapter 17:Pain like never before.

The unprecedented pain left my mind blank. I walked out the door, covered in blood and holding the long sword, my body exuding a murderous intent.The sword of this life seemed to sense my killing intent as well, emitting a series of ghostly wails in my hand. Old Ghost Han grabbed my arm and shouted, "Xiao Jiu, hurry up and leave!"Those villagers are already dead, you can't touch those corpses!That was Zimu who left the trap; you deliberately made a move on those corpses!"Get away!"I shook off the old ghost Han, rushed out of the house in one step, and frantically slashed at those corpses with my sword. At that moment, I had already lost my sanity. Eight years, I have been with Zimu for eight years. Not counting the time she saved my life from the Stone Fox, over these eight years, we have shared a mentor-student relationship and friendship. I even have an indescribable feeling for her. She suddenly turned on me! That feeling of being deceived and abandoned drove me completely insane.Using a flexible sword, which should be known for its agility, as a steel knife, I crazily slashed at the villagers. In my eyes, there was only the constant splatter of blood and the figures of people continuously falling. I know, Zimu is watching me from somewhere. Watching me go mad, go insane, but I just couldn't stop. Before long, I was the only one standing in the midst of the chaos, covered in blood, staring blankly at the corpses scattered everywhere. Old Ghost Han said tremulously, "Little Nine... the blood, the blood is all over you."At this moment, I realized that although there were corpses everywhere inside and outside the courtyard, there wasn't a single drop of blood on the ground. All the blood seemed to have stuck to me. Seeing that I didn't respond, Han Laogui rushed over, grabbed my arm, and shook it desperately, saying, "Xiao Jiu... Xiao Jiu... how are you?Do you feel anything unusual?"Do you have any strange feelings?"

"I..." I had just uttered a word when suddenly a sharp pain shot through my chest, as if someone had brutally slashed me. Immediately, that knife-like pain spread from my heart to my upper body. It's as if several people are holding sharp knives and methodically dragging them across my body. For a moment, my face turned pale with pain, and cold sweat streamed down. "I've been cursed!""I immediately wanted to perform the spell to break the curse." "Xiao Jiu, don't move yet!"Let's go home first and then talk."Old Han dragged me and quickly ran back home." After closing the door, he grabbed my collar and yanked it outward with such force that he literally tore my clothes off. Old Han just glanced at me, and with a drastic change in his expression, he took two steps back: "It was Zimu who cursed you using the lives of the entire village."I gritted my teeth against the excruciating pain and turned to the dressing mirror, only to see tiny cuts opening up all over my body. Each wound was shallow, merely cutting through the skin before retracting immediately. It looked more like someone was painting on my body, probably giving me a tattoo. "This is the Karma Spell!""Hao Guo exclaimed in shock, 'Xiao Jiu, sit down and resist with all your might.'"You must never get entangled by the Karma Curse, or else your life will be over."Old Ghost Han's cultivation level isn't high, but he has seen and experienced a lot, to the point where even Zimu admires his insights." Old Ghost Han is so panicked, he must have encountered something difficult to deal with. I followed Han Laogui's instructions and sat cross-legged in front of the mirror, gritting my teeth and observing the situation on my body: "Old Ghost, can the Karma Curse be blocked?"Old Ghost Han's expression turned serious as he said, "There's a ninety-nine percent chance it won't hold."In the world of curses, the hardest to resist is the Causality Curse.If you want to block a curse, you must first block the cause and effect.Even gods fear karma, let alone sorcerers?"Zi Mu wanted to draw a huge karmic debt onto you before casting the spell."During the time I was talking to Old Ghost Han, the pattern on my body had already roughly taken shape.The four chain-shaped patterns crossed in front of me, turned towards my back, and suddenly a sharp pain surged through my back. The main pattern of the tattoo should be concentrated on my back. I gripped my knees tightly with both hands: "Old ghost, is there something behind me?"Old Han trembled and said, "A coffin... it's the evil spirit pushing the coffin!"Xiao Jiu, hold on... don't pass out... wait for me to find out what Zimu used to cast the spell on you!"Xiao Jiu, hang in there... don't pass out... wait for me to find out how Zimu cursed you!"

"Jinlang!"It's that secret!"I squeezed out a sentence through clenched teeth." The only unusual thing I've come across these past few days is the talisman I took out from the coffin. No wonder, the Zhao family kid suddenly had his lifespan stolen. No wonder, Aunt Zhao specifically targeted me. It turns out, all of this was arranged by Zimu. I intervened to save someone, and now I'm entangled in karma. Old Han quickly opened the pouch and pulled out a secret scroll made of human skin. I am very familiar with human skin, but this secret scroll made of human skin and written in blood still makes my heart race. It was clearly written on it "Blood Secret Archive, Directory" "Blood Secret Archive?"Old Han, clutching the secret scroll with both hands, collapsed to the ground and after a long pause, said in a trembling voice, "How could Zimu have something like this?""Old Ghost, are you okay..." Before I could finish my sentence, the unbearable pain surged over me again and again. I was in so much pain that I couldn't even speak, and I couldn't even faint. Even if my consciousness briefly blurred, I would be jolted awake by the pain. I don't know how long it took, but the intense pain in my body gradually subsided. I barely managed to ask, "Old Ghost, what's on my back?"Han Laogui slapped my back and said, "Take a look for yourself!""On my back, a full-back tattoo had already appeared." In the middle of the tattoo is a huge coffin that seems to have broken through the boundaries of the yin and yang realms. Only a small part of the coffin is exposed to the mortal world, while the rest remains in the endless underworld. On either side of the coffin were fierce-looking vengeful spirits. Judging by their postures, they were clearly exerting all their strength to push the coffin, trying to move the massive coffin from the underworld to the mortal realm. The four iron chains that extended from my shoulders and wrapped around me crossed in front of the coffin, firmly blocking its path. There were also a few vengeful spirits clinging to the chains, desperately gnawing at them, as if trying to use their white, bared fangs to bite through the iron chains and clear a path for the coffin. The thing behind me, although just a picture, felt like a living ghost hiding on my body.

Old Ghost Han said with a solemn expression, "Zimu has cast a karmic curse on you using all the villagers."However, this karmic curse can be broken."Old Ghost Han pointed at the iron chains on the tattoo and said, 'These four iron chains represent the life given to you by heaven.'"The evil spirits and coffins behind you are the manifestations of the karma curse.The coffin represents misfortune, while the evil spirit represents the things that bring you misfortune."Once these four iron chains are bitten through by the evil spirit, your body will turn into that coffin, breaking through the ghost gate of the mortal world. You will be blown to smithereens, and the coffin will reappear in the human world, drawn by your flesh and blood.""But, as long as you eliminate the ghosts dragging the coffins..."The coffin will be completely transformed into a tattoo on your body under the seal of the chains, and it will no longer be able to harm you.Han Laogui said in a hoarse voice, "But I don't know how to get rid of these evil spirits!"Old Ghost Han said hoarsely, "But I don't know how to get rid of these evil spirits!"